Category Archives: Implementation Documentation

Do you have questions about the batchload process and implementing Navigator?

Join OCLC staff for an open office hour on Thursday, March 10th at 10:00 a.m. CST when they will be available to assist libraries with any questions or concerns involving the initial batchload or ongoing batchload process.

If you have not started the batchload process or if it has been years since you updated your library’s holdings in WorldCat, please consider participating in this session!

Jenny Rosenfeld invites you to participate as an attendee in the following online training session:
Topic: Texas Navigator Batchload Office Hour Host: Jenny Rosenfeld
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016
Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Session Number: Not Available
Registration password: This session does not require a registration password.
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To register for this training session
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Go to https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/k2/j.phpMTID=td4dc10a4d5189365832979817b3a1ec1 and register.

Once you are approved by the host, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the session.

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is working on its strategic plan for the next legislative session and beyond. We want to understand where to focus efforts to facilitate statewide library development. Please take this brief survey https://www.tsl.texas.gov/strategicplanldn and let us know. The survey will be on our website until the end of March.

A recording of the February 12, 2016 is available here: Play recording (53 min)

Do you have questions about the batchload process and implementing Navigator?

Join OCLC staff for an open office hour on Friday, February 12th at 10:00 a.m. CST when they will be available to assist libraries with any questions or concerns involving the initial batchload or ongoing batchload process.

If you have not started the batchload process or if it has been years since you updated your library’s holdings in WorldCat, please consider participating in this session!

In this morning’s Navigator Q&A session, Jenny Rosenfeld from OCLC discussed (amongst other things) the hows and whys of keeping your library’s holdings up to date in WorldCat and the Texas Group Catalog.

The recording is available to view here Play recording (32 min 38 sec) and covers:
*Reclamation vs. Retrospective Batchload Projects
*Ongoing Batchload vs. CatExpress for ongoing maintenance
*Where to go for help with batchloads
*The importance of dates when submitting ongoing batchloads
*A new “Batchload Office Hours” program beginning in January
*A Holdings Maintenance Decision Tree (see below)
Please view the webinar for information on these topics…and more!